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Thomas Hardy, Femininity and Dissent: Reassessing the 'Minor' Novels 1999th Edition
Author(s): J. Thomas (Author)
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date: 11 Nov. 1998
- Edition: 1999th
- Language: English
- Print length: 183 pages
- ISBN-10: 0333567013
- ISBN-13: 9780333567012
Book Description
Drawing on aspects of Foucauldian feminist theory Thomas Hardy, Femininity and Dissent offers original and detailed readings of six critically under-valued novels: Desperate Remedies, A Pair of Blue Eyes, The Hand of Ethelberta, A Laodicean, Two on a Tower and The Well-Beloved , demonstrating Hardy’s peculiarly modern appreciation of how individuals negotiate the forces which shape their sense of self. Tracing his interest in the evolutionary debate and the woman question this book reveals a new politically engaged rather than a grimly pessimistic Hardy.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Thomas’s analysis makes clear that Hardy’s minor novels offer readers the same passionate, argumentative spirit that animates the major ones… Victorian Studies
About the Author
Jane Thomas is Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Hull.
